16 Celebs Who Mastered the Sexy Halloween Costume

It's egregiously easy to wear a sexy Halloween costume—with the zillions of pre-bagged options out there, from sexy snowmen (white fishnets and sultry carrot nose included!) to sexy dentist (plunging V-neck scrubs!), you can literally buy the whole kit and kaboodle at once. But to do the sexy costume right is a whole other thing, and for that, we're looking to these celebs for inspiration. Without setting foot in the shady adult section of a Halloween store or going nearly naked in a corset and hot pants, they look hot...but not in a desperate kind of way.

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Celebrities Who Mastered the Sexy Halloween Costume

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Molly Sims

Her Copacabana singer costume lets her wear a fun, form-fitting dress and bright makeup without showing too much skin.

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Paris Hilton

Paris gets it: '80s Madonna had a punk, devil-may-care attitude that makes dressing up in her tulle skirt and thigh-highs badass and iconic ("It's Madonna!"), not just, like, lingerie dressing.

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Tika Sumpter

Brilliant: a Nefertiti headdress as an excuse to wear a white or gold gown that you look banging in. (Same logic applies to Cleopatra wigs + white or gold dresses, right?)

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Lindsay Ellingson

Sandy from Grease is an all time favorite sexy-but-not-slutty Halloween costume, and it's all because of the skintight black pants. They're SO sexy, but you still get to be like, "Hey, at least I'm wearing pants, sexy pantsless bumble bee!"

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Cindy Crawford

I mean...is there anything more glamorous-sexy than a Marilyn Monroe costume? (Answer: Cindy Crawford in a Marilyn Monroe costume. But if you can't be that, just be Marilyn.)

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Lauren Conrad

Alright, this one's a little borderline, cause it's still a sexy schoolgirl costume at its bones. But if you're a millennial and grew up with Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time," you get the benefit of "oh, a throwback cultural reference" that'll help you legitimize why you wore it.

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Zooey Deschanel

Going the Valley of the Dolls route lets you show off your legs and sport flirty cat-eye eyeliner without being, like, a Playboy Bunny.

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Lauren Conrad

Mary-janes + socks + a teeny dress? Lauren Conrad's mustered up a very coquette-ish Minnie Mouse without resorting to corsets and fishnets.

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Blake Lively

Ahh, the Cleopatra costume. Besides being a flapper, it's the best way to do the "I just want to be pretty this Halloween...but maybe I'll wear some sort of wig to justify it" thing.

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Gwen Stefani

Aaaaand Sandy from Grease again. The pants, I'm telling you. The power is in the pants. (Note: Gwen's Sandy has some sort of bloody situation going on at the head and neck, because...I don't know, because Gwen wanted to make it subversive? Whatever, I'm into it.)

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Anne Hathaway

Yep, Anne Hathaway in a Cleopatra costume. Both she and Blake Lively have pulled this move and it is not surprising at all.

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Karolina Kurkova (right)

Alas, the twentieth century version of the ancient Cleopatra costume: the flapper. Well, in a way. Curl your hair, swipe on red lipstick, wear a pretty dress...wait, how is October 31 different from all other days of the year?

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Bethenny Frankel

Dressing up as Roller Girl is a good way to wear knee socks without doing the full on schoolgirl thing. (For the record, so is being one of those senior girls in Dazed and Confused, with their jorts and baseball tees.) Plus, if you actually wear roller skates, you can be like "See, aren't I so funny? I'm wearing roller skates!" and pretend that was the allure of the costume, not the booty shorts.

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Rachel Zoe

I mean, if you basically just want a bohemian glam moment every night of the year and Halloween is no exception, you can follow Rachel Zoe's lead and be...wait...what is that? Hmm. Well, you could also dress as Rachel Zoe. Which looks not unlike this.

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Kim Kardashian

Kim has the equation down: If you balance the seashell boobs with a long, floor-grazing skirt, it's classy. (Or klassy?)

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Bethenny Frankel

More Marilyn goodness. (Extra points for this one cause it's slightly less cliché than the white dress Marilyn.)

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Lauren Conrad

I'm actually not sure what's the winner here for most popular sexy-yet-safe Halloween costume: flapper, Cleopatra, or Marilyn.

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Stacy Keibler

Black Swan: for the girl who wouldn't dream of wearing a Halloween costume that's not chiiiiic.

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Brooklyn Decker

Trolls are a sneaky sexy costume. Often a group of girls will be trolls together, and everyone will go "We're not trying to be sexy! We're wearing colored wigs! It's so crazy!" Yeah, but if you're also wearing a flesh colored body suit. It's sexy. You know this.

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Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian has all the resources in the world to pull of an INSANE Halloween costume. And yet, the flapper strikes again.

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Doutzen Kroes

Okay, so sometimes Catwoman is a bag costume. But while it's latexy and definitely aggressive, it's also super covered up, so it's sexy in more of a socially acceptable way than those "I'm a nurse! But I'm wearing a leotard?" numbers.

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Kim Kardashian

Flapper, mermaid, Catwoman: Kim Kardashian, you win this list. You are the Basic Queen of Sexy but Safe Halloween Costumes.

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